Intune Newsletter – 31st January 2025

The end of January has finally arrived, it’s been a long month!  See out the month with this weeks great selection of Intune content!

Community Content

We start this week with the fourth part of the Windows 365 Automation series from Paul Winstanley and Niall Brady.  This one covers how to resize, restore and reprovision your cloud PCs using Graph

Automating Windows 365 part 4 – Managing your Cloud PC


Michael Meier has released part 1 of a comprehensive run-through to configure AVD on Azure Stack HCI, starting with connecting your on-prem server ready for AVD deployment

Setup AVD on Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI) in your (Home)Lab – Part 1


If you have ever tried to deploy an MSI only to find it’s in user deployment and system is greyed out, check out this fix from Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson

Dealing With Misbehaving MSI Files In Intune


Next, Jörgen Nilsson has a very useful remediation script to trigger a re-install of a Win32 app, great for quickly repairing a device

Reinstall a required Win32app using remediation on demand


Always a tricky subject as an Intune administrator, Timmy Andersson looks at how to manage your internal Android LOB applications including testing new versions

Private or In-house developed Android app deployment with Microsoft Intune for Android Enterprise devices – Part 1


Oliver Kieselbach has updated the excellent SyncML Viewer with some great new features, including decoding the Autopilot hash

SyncML Viewer Update with Autopilot hash decoding


This first part from Sebastian F. Markdanner looks at all of the excellent functionality available in Business Premium licenses and how to use them to secure your tenant.  Part one looks at Entra, Defender and general tenant security

https://www.chanceofsecurity.com/post/securing-microsoft-business-premium-part-01-laying-the-foundation


Joey Verlinden has updated the Conditional Access Framework with some new policies to review when securing your tenant

Conditional Access Framework (2025.2.1)


Following on from the previous post in the series, Jon Towles continues to look at Windows 11 Kiosk mode, this time covering Shell Launcher and User experience, including the XML and demo videos

Deep Dive into Windows 11 Kiosks Part 2: Advanced


On the subject of Kiosks, Jesse Weimer has a script here to hide notifications on the kiosk user account

https://www.getrubix.com/blog/kioskuser0-and-the-orange-dot


Browser extensions are something you definitely want to manage or you’ll end up with a 90s web browser and 300 search bars.  Learn how to manage them with Edge in this post from Peter van der Woude

Managing Microsoft Edge browser extensions on Windows devices


This weeks Rudy Ooms deep dive, looks at the functionality behind Administrator Protection and the ShadowAdminPairs key

The ShadowAdminPairs: A Deep Dive into Administrator Protection


Following on from last weeks post covering how to enrol devices with device flow, this one from Rahul Jindal covers how to protect your environment accordingly

https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2025/01/authentication-flows-protection-device.html


Niklas Tinner continues the Windows 365 series here, this one looking at troubleshooting your cloud PCs

https://www.oceanleaf.ch/windows-365-troubleshooting/


Next, Dustin Gullett runs through how to setup passkeys for extra secure sign-ins

https://www.getrubix.com/blog/lets-set-up-passkeys-the-easy-secure-way


This post from Kenneth van Surksum compares Entra Global Secure Access to MDE to see how they stack up for web filtering

Comparing Web Filtering and Security: Microsoft Entra Internet Access (Global Secure Access) vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)


Video Content

Now onto the video content, starting with two posts from Steve Weiner, the first of which runs through how to configure Windows 365 frontline in Intune

If platform scripts aren’t meeting your needs and you aren’t licensed for remediations, or need scripts to work alongside Win32 apps, packaging them as apps is a great solution and covered in Steve’s second video.


We also have the latest Windows 365 AMA covering Frontline with Christian Montoya, Donna Ryan, Khyati Shah and Go Komatsu


Microsoft Content

This weeks Microsoft content comes from the Intune Support Team and covers new policy implementation and web enrollment for Android work profile

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/IntuneCustomerSuccess/new-policy-implementation-and-web-enrollment-for-android-personally-owned-work-p/4370417


That’s all for this week, have a great weekend!

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